Automated Determination of Sublanguage Syntactic Usage

Abstract

Sublanguages differ from each other, and from the "standard language", in their syntactic, semantic, and discourse properties. Understanding these differences is important if we are to improve our ability to process these sublanguages. We have developed a semiautomatic procedure for identifying sublanguage syntactic usage from a sample of text in the sublanguage. We describe the results of applying this procedure to three text samples: two sets of medical documents and a set of equipment failure messages.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA574658

Entities

People

  • Elaine Marsh
  • Lynette Hirschman
  • Ngo T. Nhan
  • Ralph David Grishman

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automatic
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Electrical Equipment
  • Grammars
  • Information Operations
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Military Research
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • New York
  • Production
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Systems Analysis and Design